Second Gen (2003-2016, 2016- )
Vacation? Haven’t had one of those since… 2019? Actually going places and looking at things? Don’t know how I will manage. Mr. Protz wrote* about one way to go places and look at things in Belgium, a tram that runs 42 miles and stops something like 68 times at or near watering holes. Much excitement … Continue reading “The Beery News Notes For The Thursday Before My Actual Vacation”
As you all know all too well, I taught English to rude high school kids and bored adult evening classes in Poland in 1991. So sweater always strikes me as a word that should raise and eyebrow or two: Student: “You wear that just to sweat in it!?!?” Teacher: “No, it’s for when it’s cold.” … Continue reading “The Beery News Notes For When You Dream Of Sweater Weather”
What is up?!? Happy end of July! No one ever says that. I saw back to school ads this week. That sucked. Except the kid will be going back to school. And we had some wicked storms come through this week – a tornado even hit north of here – and now it’s almost sweater … Continue reading “The Last Lingering Beery News Notes For July 2022”
The trouble with writing something on a weekly basis is you notice that another week has passed. This is why I don’t shave every day. Looking at the same mug in the same mirror at the same time each and every morning? No thanks. You notice too much. Like that one third of this summer … Continue reading “The Thursday Beery News Notes For Summer 2022’s Second Third”
That’s a bit of a bold claim. Death defying. But, having checked the stats, I am 98% sure that no one has died as a direct* result** of reading the weekly beery news notes. I also can confirm that no one has been harmed by reading Taste, the recent memoir by Stanley Tucci.*** It is … Continue reading “The Death Defying Mid-July 2022 Thursday Beery News Notes”
What to do on summer holiday? Now that it is July, I really have to figure out what the second half of August could promise. Not just chores, right? Chores ought to be done by then, done well before the snow shovels and garden hose swap places again. Martyn’s eternal holiday got me thinking about … Continue reading “July 2022’s Very Own First Beery News Notes”
Me. Wednesday morning. I ran out into the backyard in my slippers to cover up the small Romaine plants before 8 am – given there was the dumbest rabbit ever out there, eating some weeds in the lawn about seven feet away from the finest dining he ever saw… if he were to ever see … Continue reading “Your Thursday Beery News Notes For The Mid-Year Checkup”
I took the week off. Things to do. That toilet flap with the itsy-bitsy trickily drip? Replaced. Raised bed cover? Mended. Hedge? Trimmed. Whipper?Snipped. So I am a bit tight for time. Good thing, then, that the beer world went dead this week as far as news goes. Me, I might go over to the … Continue reading “The First Thursday Beery News Notes For Summertime”
Finally. I am now convinced we may not get snow again… probably… the crops are a’risin’ and they are getting noticed and even harvested by strangers new to the neighbourhood. I even sharpened the manual mower and dug up the now dead fig tree’s root. In fact, I was reminded just last Saturday how much … Continue reading “The Mid-June 2022 Edition of Thursday Beery News Notes”
Here we are. Again. Growing in wisdom. Me, I’ve been reading more books this year and keeping track. Keeping track of a lot of things. Self-improvement? Do more of this cut down on a bit of that. Twenty-seven books so far this year, not one of them about beer. Currently (after reading the highly recommended … Continue reading “Yet Another Week’s Worth Of Beery News Notes On A Thursday”